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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Okay hurray it's finally done...and it was a sunny day and I was able to take it's pic! Things went my way today in hat finishing/photo land!

Hat of day is by Jared Flood, called Turn a Square.I actually made this hat twice, first time looked lovely but my jogs were not quite jogless...however I had it figured out by decrease round...so opted to pull out all my knitting back to very first stripe and do it right throughout hat. Not too painful and a whole newskill now in my pocket.

Jogging if you look at the hat...is the part where you make these lovelystripes going around sides of hat...when you switch a color you basicallyget this stair stepping, where one row of color is off from next...well theyinvented a way...(knitter's are such clever thinking folks) to avoid this jogging. so see further in post for details along with some good pictorialson how to do this and note close up of hat...stripes look pretty behaved. going around and around in the same line, it really works!Yarn is Berroco Ultra Alpaca color 6205 and Noro Kereyon or Silk Garden, not a 100% sure which as I tossed the label...silly me.

let's just say the alpaca is so soft and lovely...I may just knit with alpaca from now on.

There are currently 886 projects on Ravelry as of today for this hatpattern, and 61 pages of finished photos. Another more popular pattern.By the way, this is a free pattern and can be found here:if you are on Ravelry http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/turn-a-square

or at his blog, follow link on bottom of pagehttp://brooklyntweed.blogspot.com/

I was thinking of making Jared of Brooklyn, New York aka Brooklyn Tweedbe the blog of the day...but that seemed like cheating...so instead will choose another see later in posting.

Speaking of jogless jogs, the best explanation I found and there are manyonline was by Meg Swanson (no surprise there). See note here and good pics:

http://www.socknitters.com/kickback/joglessjog.htm

I definitely plan to knit another Brooklyn Tweed pattern as love them all, very well written and easy to follow. Being a process knitter, I find I learnnew skills with each of his patterns...I love the challenge!

Okay poking around in blogosphere again and thought wouldn't it be lovelyto find a blog based outside the US as many visitors to my blog are from other countries. So I found the following out of Australia, Monster Knitsand think it's a keeper to regularly follow...very interesting...love the gnome on the stocking, or at least think it's a stocking and also love those raspberry fingerless gloves. It does look a little bit like a shop's blog, but still pretty interesting overall.